girls:
1.2k births since 1916
#4558 (20th percentile)
boys:
189.7k births since 1880
#189 (96th percentile)
overall:
190.9k births since 1880
#402 (95th percentile)
The name Manuel is the #402 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 190,903 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 94.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #189 (95.9% percentile) for all time with 189,745 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,558 (20.2% percentile) for all time with 1,158 births since 1916.
Manuel has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1916 for girls).
The name Manuel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Manuel reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 83.2% percentile (ranked #130) with 1,231 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 1,468 births per million (ranked 79.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2006, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Manuel ranks #313 for boys (65.7% percentile) with 549 births per million, which is 37.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Manuel reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #799) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 18 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Manuel".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Manuel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.0% confident that Manuel is pronounced as muhn-WEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is man-WEHL, at 21.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like M AH0 N W EH1 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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